Charles F. Page was granted a patent for an airship one month before the Wright brothers received a patent for their flying machine; however, the Wrights filed for their patent before Page. Page also ...

Charles Mallory claimed that this ungainly contraption carried him through the air for a distance of eighty feet although, conveniently, there were no other witnesses. Ohio license plates proclaim the ...

The Wright brothers took flight for the first time the same year The New York Times published an editorial speculating it could take 1 to 10 million years to develop a successful flying machine. The ...

Today our Nation celebrates the heroic moment America took to the skies when Orville and Wilbur Wright launched the first controlled, machine-powered ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A feature film about two of ...

"Our homes", v. 32, no. 5 (1 March 1904; western edition) pages 240-243 -- "Our homes", v. 32, no. 20 (15 Oct. 1904; eastern edition), pages 987-988 -- "Our homes", v ...

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, N.C., with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. They ...

Happy Wright Brothers Day, Dayton! Exactly 122 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history with the first ...

On a recent trip to Dayton, I spent the day visiting some of its many Wright brothers sites. Despite being less than an hour away, Dayton is typically out of my purview for local history. But it ...

About Wright Brothers National Memorial The Wright Brothers both had a dream of trying to fly. They choose a site on North Carolina's Outer Banks to experiment with their ideas for a flying machine.

WASHINGTON -- National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But ...